Acer :: New Aspire 4715z No Partitions
May 10, 2008
i just bought a new aspire 4715z and on first boot i found tons of Crapware installed in vista so i 100% removed all partitions and made 1 NTFS partition and installed a copy of vista i had sitting around my problem is i want to get back to my factory setup and acer sent me 3 disks by Fed-ex one disk is called
Acer System Disk ( CD)
Acer Recovery Disk 1-2
Acer Recovery Disk 2-2
I try the system disk first
then put in Recovery disk 1-2 and it gets to about 8% and i get an error and it reboots.
I think its because i dont have the partitions setup like it was at factory and the MBR-Master boot Record is also diff now.
What Can I do to get my Disk back in shape and why wont these Cd's do it for me ?
the hardware is good and the Drive is good im in Vista now posting on the laptop.
I just want this to work as i bought a laptop and should be able to restore to factory no matter what i have done to the laptop
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Apr 19, 2009
i have acer 4715z with a original windows vista home basic...and have also installed acer management.. because of very slow and i thought that full of virus already. try to restore to factory default using acer recovery.. but the problem is cannot continued because have corrupted file on the system..thats why i dicided to reformat.and the big problem is i cannot enter the product key. it says that the key is already used..
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Dec 31, 2008
I have pre-installed Vista Ultimate 32bit.. and I want to do dual boot with Linux.. but when I try to partitionate the program from which I'm doing this says I can only have maximum 4 partitions.. which I currently have.. (dunno why this..normally in theory you can create how many partitions you want.. nevertheless..) 2 NTFS..using them with Windows .. and 2 Hidden for recovery..
I've made 2 Acer recovery disks so I can restore my system but I want to do dual boot.. so I don't know exactly how.. if I can't create other partitions..
I can delete those 2 Hidden partitions and still can recover my Vista ? and After that I can create others?
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Dec 16, 2014
The hard drive on my Acer laptop (Aspire V5-552) has 5 hidden partitions. One I expected, assuming it contains an image of the original set up. But what are the other 4? I list them below with what details Macrium Reflect gives;
Recovery – NTFS Primary 255.9 of 400 MB used.
Esp – FAT32 (LBA) Primary 48.6 of 300 MB used
Unnamed, unformatted primary 128 MB
C: - NTFS Primary … main part of HD 496 GB
Unnamed NTFS Primary 337.5 of 350MB used
Push Button Reset – NTFS Primary 12.56 of 15 GB used
OS is Win 8.1 and I'd really like to tidy things up ... it won't give me a lot more space, but it looks a mess and I thought you could only have 4 partitions total?
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Dec 16, 2014
The hard drive on my Acer laptop (Aspire V5-552) has 5 hidden partitions. One I expected, assuming it contains an image of the original set up. But what are the other 4? I list them below with what details Macrium Reflect gives:
Recovery – NTFS Primary 255.9 of 400 MB used.
Esp – FAT32 (LBA) Primary 48.6 of 300 MB used
Unnamed, unformatted primary 128 MB
C: - NTFS Primary … main part of HD 496 GB
Unnamed NTFS Primary 337.5 of 350MB used
Push Button Reset – NTFS Primary 12.56 of 15 GB used
OS is Win 8.1 and I'd really like to tidy things up ... it won't give me a lot more space, but it looks a mess and I thought you could only have 4 partitions total?
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Oct 28, 2014
I'm seeing the following:
600 MB Healthy (Recovery Partition)
300 MB Healthy (EFI System Partition)
449 GB Healthy (Boot, Page etc...)
15.5 GB Healthy (Recovery Partition)
Given I'm supposed to be running OEM Windows 8.1 shouldn't 1 of the first 2 partitions say OEM?
If that is so I know what I've done and it will probably require a recovery disk to set things straight (i.e. recover the original Acer version of Windows 8.1). This is a follow-on from a previous post where I foolishly installed an evaluation copy of Windows 10 instead of running it using virtual software (which is what I usually do with these things) - I can't remember for sure but it's likely I installed it by formatting the whole disk and probably wiping the OEM partition.
I do have a system image taken a few days before I installed W10 but suspect the OEM wasn't included...which is what is displayed above after I reloaded it.
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Jan 6, 2014
I'm having a problem to install windows 7 pro on my Lenovo t440s ( that came with windows 8 ) using a memory stick.I went to the windows 7 installation menu and formatted the Windows 8 partition, so now I have :
Disk 0 Partition 1: WINRE_DRV 1GB OEM
Disk 0 Partition 2 : System_DRV 260MB System
Disk 0 Partition 3 128MB MSR
Disk 0 Unnallocated Space 225GB ( it was the old windows 8 partition )
Disk 0 Partition 4: Lenovo_Recory 12.1GB OEM
However, when i try to use the free space to install the windows 7 i get this error :" Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partitions style. "
I tried to bot using Legacy Boot Only and after using UEFI/Legacy Boot and nothing changed, I'm still receiving the same error.I read that I have to select each of the partitions on the drive, and select Delete. Then the drive will show a single area of unallocated space that I should use to install windows.there is any problem in delete all my partitions of Lenovo T440s? Can I delete the OEM partitions?
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Oct 4, 2009
I have a hard drive of 500 GB on windows vista ultimate. When I installed vista on it I forgot to make 2 partitions so I made a 500 gb partition, which i don't like. I had ~80 GB used out of 500. Using vista's computer management I've managed to create a partition of ~140 GB, from the free space of the 500 GB partiton. I don't understand why it won't let me create a 350 GB partition, since there was about 400 GB free... Anyway, now I have a 300 GB partition with 100 GB used and windows vista ultimate on it and a 140 GB partition with 50 GB used. How can I make the windows partition of 150 GB and the second one from 140 into ~300 without having to reinstall windows / format ? Vista's computer management doesn't let me do this, i don't know why exactly.
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Feb 22, 2010
Is it adviceable to delete the old preinstalled partition just to install w7 ultimate?
I have on HDD 12GB of recovery partition, 100MB of system , and 280 of OS.
What would you do.. erase all and proceed with new fresh W7? Is it risky?
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Jan 23, 2015
How could I clean both partitions with out erasing my OS. This would be on my Acer One (KAV10). I have Windows Ultimate installed on it through work and "IT" guys say that can't reinstall it it I wipe it of hard drive. I also have a 3680 and New Chromebook. But the Acer One is my garage handyman computer that never gives me problems.
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Feb 21, 2009
Background:
A few days ago i bought an Acer 7730 laptop with Windows Vista pre-installed and no disks. After initial hesitation i have decided to keep vista and not downgrade to XP. After all there will be more service packs and tweaking should speed it up lots anyway.
However, i really want to get rid of the three partitions on the hard drive. There is only one physical hard drive but there are three partitions; a hidden 10GB one (EISA configuration) which from what i have gathered is now obsolete, a C: partition 111.44GB and a D: partition 111.44GB. There is no need to split a drive into several partitions now that we have the NTFS file system (unless you are using multiple operating systems of course - but i am not) so this is really annoying me.
I have made the 2 recovery DVD and the 1 applications/drivers DVD. I have an old WinXP disk that i can use to format the laptop if required.
Question:
Using the recovery disks (which i'm assuming contain a copy of my bought OEM Vista that was pre-installed on the laptop), can i delete the partitions, format the hard drive and install Vista onto a single c: partition?
I've done this exact process before with WinXP hundreds of times but i'm not sure whether i can do the same for Vista with just the 3 DVD mentioned...
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Aug 11, 2009
here's a topic I am getting confused on, after reading many different things, so I want to ask about this here.
I understand that many PC sellers like Dell put hidden partitions on new PCs for various functions. Originally I thought that my new Dell would have something related to a "recovery" partition to reset the PC back to factory installs.
But after reading more and more I think that is only part of the puzzle, that there may possibly be at least 3 different types of hidden partitions.
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Mar 2, 2009
I just go a new harddrive that I wanted to install as my primary HD. Its a Western Digital 320GB 7200rpd drive.
My question is since I will be reinstalling Vista and all the other programs, how do I recreate the Recovery partition that is on my current HD.
Thanks again. As far as backing up things, I have a 2nd HD bay where I have a 500GB installed for all my saved music videos, files ect so its not a problem
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May 14, 2010
I have the Precision M6500, and before the Windows 7 partition there are two smaller partitions that I don't want or need. I will install from the DVD if I need to reinstall it and I use Acronis to do full image backups.
So I started up with changing the active partition from one of those recovery partitions. Suddenly I get the "BOOTMGR missing" pain in the a$$. No problem to fix it of course, I use a Linux Partition Manager boot CD for that.
But the problem is that if it reacts that badly to that change (I even tried the original Windows 7 DVD to startup repair, fixboot and fixmbr, but it didn't help),
then I fear that removing those partitions all together will really mess things up. Can I force the Windows 7 bootmanager over to the OS partition, or is this some custom Dell stuff that means that I would have to reinstall 7 totally to get it fixed?
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Nov 16, 2008
I have to extend my C: partition because it's becoming to small (I'll use gParted for that), so I figure I can use the opportunity to get something done about that awful MediaDirect 3.5 too.
Right now I have four partitions on my hard disc: a 47 MB partition, then C:, then D:, then a 2 GB partition. I figure the first and the last are used for MediaDirect 3.5.
Could I just uninstall MediaDirect 3.5 from within Vista, then install MediaDirect 4.0, then repartition my hard disc including deleting the 2 MD partitions? Is this all secure when it comes to the scary "home" button?
Oh, and btw: I need MediaDirect 4.0! Is there some way to get it? Do I have to convince someone from Dell to send it to me?
(And if I DON'T get MD 4.0 could I somehow re-route the "Home" button, and still safely get rid of those 2 MD partitions?)
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Jan 10, 2009
I'm trying to install Win7B, and the main problem is that I already have four partitions on my HDD and it won't let me create any more.
There's the main C:/Drive, then the three Dell ones: Recovery, and two blank ones that (after some googling) I believe are for diagnostics and DellMediaDirect .....
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May 7, 2010
I just bought a Dell Inspiron 17 with a 350 GB HDD. It is partitioned into C: and D: drives.
The C: drive has about 50 GB and the D: about 300 GB. All of the user files are in the smaller C: drive.
1. Wouldn't it be better to have the user files in the larger side?
2. Can this be changed?
3. What do you recommend?
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Aug 12, 2009
I would like to create a dual-boot Vista and Ubuntu on Dell Studio XPS 13. When I tried to partition the hard disk, I found that there are Dell Utility and Recovery partitions.
What are these partitions? Is it safe to delete them? If I delete them, can I restore them back again? How can I backup, if possible, these partitions to CD or DVD before deleting them
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Mar 14, 2010
I bought an HP DV6-2138CA and the 500GB hard drive has 4 primary partitions. There is a primary before the Windows7 partition (probably from Win7), the recovery partition primary and the HP tools primary. I created 1 set of recovery DVDs, as well burned the swsetup directory on a dvd.
I then installed Win7 Pro x64, after imaging the current Win7x64 Home, clobbering the Win7 home partition. Now I realize that one of the remaining 3 primary partitions have to be deleted if I want to create an extended partition to hold logical partitions for my use.
As a test I put a spare 160GB hard drive in the laptop and ran the recovery DVDs. It reinstalled Windows7 Home Premium and created the HP tools directory. However the recovery partition was not recreated. Rather than relying on one set of recovery DVDs I guess the only way to make a second recovery DVD set at this stage, is to copy my existing DVD set to a backup set.
My question is can I safely nuke the recovery partition, HP Tools partition and still get warranty support and if necessary send it into HP?
Update:
The recovery discs that I created are not copyable due to read errors. I restored the Win7 Home Premium but friggin HP says that I can not create another set! There is no HPCD.sys file at the root of the recovery partition that I can rename to get around this ridiculous restriction!
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Aug 21, 2012
Having a hard time figuring the partitions. first is a windows recovery drive. Second the windows boot partition. Third i'm guessing a lenovo recovery drive. Other than C: Windows, The other i'm not sure.
Other info: Made usb factory restore and made one restore point. When i made the usb factory restore when it finished it asked if i wanted to erase the recovery and i selected yes. Was thinking maybe G: was created when i made the restore.
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Nov 25, 2009
Well, didn't check before installing Macrium Reflect Professional but it detected 7 (seven) partitions in my Yoga2 13 (Not Pro) as follows:
1 - WinRE_DRV 1GB total 313MB used - NTFS Primary
2 - System_DRV 260MB total 28.5MB used - FAT32(LBA) Primary
3 - LRS_ESP 1GB total 497MB used - FAT32 (LBA) Primary
4 - NONE Unformated Primary (?)
5 - Windows OS 422GB total 44.58GB used (C NTFS Primary
6 - Lenovo 25GB total 2.46GB used (D NTFS Primary
7 - PBR_DRV 15.75GB total 12.46GB used NTFS Primary
All Yoga2 13 are like that from the factory or Macrium created some of them? If they are like that from the factory what each of the partitions have inside (other than, obvlously, the #5 Windows.)
In creating an image for restore in case one is needed which ones I should include in the image?
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Apr 16, 2009
So Dell has taken up two partitions.
1) around 10GB for the factory image
2) around 200MB for something else which I dont know...
I have another windows partition
so that makes 3 primary partitions.
But now I wanna install linux , but I don't want to loose the factory image ( so that i can do a manual restore later on )....
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Jan 19, 2010
I want to run dual boot with windows 7 and ubuntu. The problem is that i already got 4 primary partitions, even tho I only use one myself.
One partition is an OEM partition of 39 mb. One is at 797 kb, and I have totally no clue what this partitions is for. Ive tried googling for hours, but I cant find anything. And then I have the 100 mb partitions created by windows 7.
What of those partitions can I delete? All of them? And do anyone know what the 797 kb dynamic data partition is?
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May 5, 2009
I think I know the answer to this but I just wanted to confirm.
I'm installing Windows7 RC on my Dell Studio, and during the part where you choose the installation location I'm seeing 3 partitions.
The 139GB main one, the Recovery partition, and one called 'OEM' that's 39MB. I left it alone and formatted then installed on the main 139GB partition but I'm wondering about the 39MB one
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Apr 26, 2009
I have an xpsm1210 laptop which came with dell recovery partition but which I erased shortly after I got it. I wish I hadn't
I also have an xps m1530 laptop which has all its partition as set up by dell.
I am going to replace the hard drive in my m1210 laptop with a bigger one - the same size as the one in my m1530 laptop - 320 Gb
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Apr 13, 2013
Just got my Dell Windows 8 laptop and looking at disk management I can see 4 partitions in there in addition to the one containing the OS. See image below.
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Nov 1, 2009
I am getting my win7 upgrade disc tomorrow for my studio 1555, and I was wondering a few things before I carry out my clean install.
First, with regards to drivers, there do not seem to be drivers for everything on the dell win7 driver page (nothing for bluetooth, system utilities, etc.). I have downloaded everything relevant to my computer, but where can I find the rest of the drivers I need? Also, what order should I be installing them?
Second question is in regards to the recovery partition. Is there any point keeping it? I have heard various things about whether it will or won't work after installing windows 7
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Apr 19, 2009
I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 with pre-installed Windows Vista Home Basic. In my disk, I have already have 4 partitions, os, recovery, EISA configuration and a no name, drive letter 2.50GB partition. I want to create a new partition to store my private data. From pcworld tutorial
(http://www.pcworld.com/article/13207...in_vista.html), I made an unallocated space. However, I can't make it into a new simple volume. Windows says I have already reached maximum number of partitions allowed.
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Mar 15, 2010
i bought a new hard drive, and it has a load of space i will not use, so was thinking of adding both the recovery partition and diagnostics partition, But have some questions of how i would even do that. First, what would i do, just create a couple of blank partitions?
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Apr 15, 2010
Is it possible to split my external hard disk into two partition? The drive is originally NTFS.. but I'm looking to split it so that the second partition is Mac OS compatible.
My plan is to use Partition Manager in Windows so that I can split the drive without having to lose data. Then plug it back into Mac OSX so that I can format the new partition to a Mac compatible format.
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